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Meanings of masquerade in English

Portuguese
baile de máscaras
Catalan
festa de màscares
Spanish
mascarada

A party of guests wearing costumes and masks.

baile de máscaras
Portuguese
disfarce
Catalan
disfressa

A costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party.

disfarce

Chennai based English theatre group.

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Usage of masquerade in English
1
The best of them are but the Scripture parables in modern masquerade.
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
2
But the principal speaker at the masquerade was neither Beatrice nor Benedick.
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
3
But lying and snivelling and canting and Hicksing always appear in masquerade.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series
4
It wasn't until Reznik's masquerade that we began to suspect the truth.
The Lost Sisterhood
5
We are about to close the masquerade by the dance of death.
The Great Conspiracy, Volume 2
6
They could easily get away with it on account of the masquerade.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
7
By the way, you gave me no account of the last masquerade.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
8
He caught the look of shrewd intelligence and saw through her masquerade.
The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
9
In its revival of old forms, old customs, it is a masquerade.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
10
For there is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
A Preface to Politics
11
The masquerade is meant to dupe users into installing the backdoor malware.
Reuters
12
Do you not know what a masquerade ball means to a woman?
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
13
But she now saw that it was useless to masquerade any longer.
The House of Whispers
14
Divining her desire, Balder helped out the masquerade as best he might.
Idolatry: A Romance
15
I must play out this fool's masquerade as if nothing is amiss.
A Game of Thrones
16
The masquerade would fail, and besides, masquerade was foreign to his nature.
Martin Eden
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Translations for masquerade
Spanish
mascarada
Masquerade through the time
Masquerade across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common